Sleeve-holder.



No. 703,366. Patented July I, I902.

A. J. BARBER.

SLEEVE HOLDER.

(Application filed Aug. 16, 1901.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT IOFFICE.

ARTHUR J. BARBER, OF ROCHESTER, NEXV YORK.

SLEEVE-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. '703,366,'dated July 1, 1902.

Application filed August 15,1901. Serial No. 72,085. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ARTHUR J. BARBER, a resident of Rochester, in the county of Monroe and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sleeve- Holders; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same.

The invention relates to devices for holding shirt-sleeves and for like purposes, and has for its object to provide an improved construction whereby the size and cost of manufacture of such articles may be decreased and effi ciency in operation insured.

The invention consists in the construction herein described and pointed out.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective of the sleeve-holder applied to a sleeve. Fig. 2 is an enlarged perspective of the device. Fig. 3 is an elevation, partly in section, an open position being indicated by broken lines.

The sleeve-holder consists of two members 1 and 2, conveniently, but not necessarily, made of wire and pivotallyconnected at'3, the end of one being flattened at 4 and the proximate end of the other forked at 5 to receive said flattened end, substantially as shown.

6 denotes a slide loosely held in the fork of member 2 by a coiled spring 7, surrounding said member and secured to it at 8 and havingits opposite free end bearing on the cheeks 9 of the head of the said sliding pin 6. The head of this pin 6 may be curved, as indicated, and normally situated in contact or nearly'in contact with the member head 4 and adapted to rock on said latter head when the holder members are opened or closed by relatively moving them about their pivot. These heads,

however, have such form that the pin is moved endwise in the fork by the relative movement of the members 1 and 2 about their pivot, the coiled springserving to return the pin and keep it in contact with the member head l. The construction is such that the spring acts to hold the members open in approximate lengthwise alinement and also when folded or closed in approximate parallelism. The member 1 has by preference an offset 10 to provide space between the two members whenclosed upon the wound fabric in approximate parallelism.

l 1 denotes small hooks or curved pins adapted to engage a fabric which in operation is wound about the member 2, the device being open for the purpose. \Vhen so wound, to shorten or gather up any fabric, such as that of a sleeve, the windings are secured by moving the member 1 down upon said fabric and to a situation parallel with the member 2.

The pins 11 are oppositely situated and oppositely curved and are made short, as rep:

resented, to avoid possible puncturing of the person. Being made short, their hooked forked form and plurality contribute to secure hold upon the folds or windings of a fabric.

If desired, member 1 maybe knurled, substantiall y as indicated. The particular numher and form of the pins 11 are not essential and neither is the particular form ofthe spring nor Other means for holding the member 1 closed upon the fabric wound about or folded on a member2, are not excluded from theinvention, and joints and spring connections,such as are used in devices for other purposes and hav-.

ing an analogous action, may be employed, provided the principles of construction and operation hereindescribed are not departed from.

When the holding device is open, its members are situated approximately and substantially in one and the same straight line and so that one member can be used as a handle to rotate the other and wind the fabric about it. The small offset 10 is provided to furnish space for the wound fabric between the memhers held approximately parallel. The 11161111 berhaving said offset is made of substantially the same-length as the other to avoid an inconvenient and unsightly extension beyond the other member and beyond the fabric folded upon it.

Having thus described my invention, what i I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- I 1. A device for temporarily shortening. and

holding sleeves on the person comprising members pivotally connected whereby they may be closed and opened, a fabric-engaging pin situated in one of said members to engage the fabric when the member is rotated in contact therewith, and means for holding the members when closed in approximate parallelism, one within the folds of the sleeve and one without, whereby a sleeve in use may be shortened by rotating the device in contact therewith and may then be held in shortened condition by closing the members.

2. a A device for temporarily shortening and holding sleeves on the person comprising members pivotally connected whereby they may be closed and opened, a fabric-engaging pin situated in one of said members to engage the fabric when the member is rotated in contact therewith, and means for holding the members when closed in approximate parallelism, one within the folds of the sleeve and one without, whereby a sleeve in use maybe I shortened by rotating the device in contact therewith and may then be held in shortened condition by closing the members, one of said ric-engaging pin in one of said members, and

means for holding the members in approximate parallelismwhen closed, said means comprising a spring surrounding'one member, and a pin sliding in a fork on said. member and having a head extending outside thereof and situated immediately between the spring and the other member of the holder. 4. A device for temporarily shortening and proximate parallelism, one within the folds of the sleeve and one without,- whereby a sleeve in use may be shortened by rotating the device in contact therewith and may then be held in shortened condition by closing the members.

5. Adevicefor temporarily shortening and holding sleeves on the person comprising members pivotally connected whereby they may be closed and opened, a fabric-engaging pin situated in one of saidmembers to engage the fabric when the member is rotated in con-' tact therewith, and means for holding the members when closed in approximate parallelism,,one Withinthe folds of the sleeve and I one without, whereby a sleeve in use maybe shortened by'rotating the device in'contact therewith andmaythen be held in shortened condition by closing the members, said members being of substantially the same length.

In testimonywhereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses. y

ARTHUR J. BARBER.

Witnesses:

H. M. ROGERS, GEO. P. DRAPER. 

